Online Quran, Arabic and Islamic Studies Classes for Kids in the UK

One child, one teacher, in the hours after school. Taught in English by graduates of Al-Azhar University, live from home across Britain.

We built this for the family whose child recites well but understands nothing, whose local madrasah class has thirty children in it, or who simply cannot get to the mosque three evenings a week.

We are onboarding our first teachers now. Register your interest and we will contact you before we open to the public. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Register your interest See how lessons work

• One to oneNever a class of thirty
• Al-Azhar graduatesTeaching in English
• After school, 4pm to 8pmUK time, around your week
• Camera on, parents welcomeJoin or record any lesson

What your child learns

QuranLetters and Noorani Qaida, then fluent reading, tajweed, and memorisation at the child's own pace.Explore Quran classes ArabicThe alphabet, reading and writing, then Quranic vocabulary or spoken Arabic depending on your goal.Explore Arabic classes Islamic studiesAqeedah, the basics of fiqh, the seerah and everyday duas, taught at a level a child can hold on to.Explore Islamic studies

Three subjects, taught one to one, each with a clear path from the first lesson to real fluency. Most children study one strand and add a second once the first is settled, and a typical week is two or three half-hour lessons rather than one long session.

Quran

A child who has never seen an Arabic letter starts with letter recognition and short vowel sounds, usually through Noorani Qaida. That stage builds the decoding habit: seeing a letter and producing the right sound without hesitating. It takes most children somewhere between four months and a year, depending on how often they practise between lessons.

From there the work moves to joined words and then to running text, which is where Quran reading for beginners sits. Fluency comes before beauty. Once a child reads a page without stopping to think, tajweed corrects the finer points: the heavy letters, the nasal sounds, the lengths.

Memorisation runs alongside rather than instead of reading, starting with the short surahs, and there is no rush to begin it. Older children who want to understand what they recite move into meaning-based work through tafseer. Children who need the practical side first often take salah lessons alongside. The full route is set out on our online Quran classes for kids page.

Arabic

Parents often ask which Arabic their child should learn, and the answer depends on what you want at the end of it. Quranic Arabic builds the vocabulary and grammar that appear in the text, so a child stops hearing sounds and starts hearing sentences. Conversational Arabic is for speaking with family and on visits abroad. They overlap, but they are not the same subject.

Lessons begin with the Arabic alphabet, move into reading and writing proper words, and then split according to your goal: Quranic Arabic or spoken Arabic. Many families do both, a term of one and then the other. There is more detail on the Arabic classes for kids page, and a practical guide to teaching Arabic to an English-speaking child if you want to support the work at home.

Islamic studies

This strand answers the questions children actually ask. Aqeedah covers belief in language a nine-year-old can hold onto, without turning it into abstract theology. Fiqh basics is the practical side: wudu, prayer, fasting, what to do when you get it wrong.

Seerah is taught as narrative, which is why children remember it, and the duas course attaches short supplications to daily moments so they stick. See Islamic studies for kids for the full outline, or browse everything on the courses page.

Why parents choose us

There are a lot of online academies now, and most of them say the same four things. Here is what is actually different here, including the part other academies leave out.

Teachers who trained at Al-Azhar

Our teachers are Al-Azhar graduates based in Egypt. That matters for recitation in particular: tajweed is learned by ear from someone who was corrected the same way, and a teacher who has sat through that training hears mistakes a well-meaning volunteer misses.

Teaching a British child is a second skill on top of that, so lessons run in English, with Arabic used for the material itself. You can read more about the people behind the academy on our about us page.

One to one, not one of twenty

In a class of twenty, a child reads aloud for perhaps ninety seconds. In a half-hour one to one lesson, your child reads for most of the lesson and every error gets corrected the moment it happens rather than becoming a habit over a term.

It also means the pace is theirs. A child who is quick moves on; a child who needs three weeks on the same page gets three weeks. If your child has struggled in a group before, that difference is usually the whole story, and it is worth reading why some children stop wanting to go to madrasah.

Times that fit a British school week

Lessons are scheduled around the UK school day: after school from late afternoon into the evening, and across the weekend. No driving anywhere in the rain at half past five, no sitting in a car park for forty minutes.

Sessions are short and frequent rather than long and occasional, because that is what holds a child's attention and keeps reading fluent. The how it works page sets out scheduling, lesson length and what happens if you need to move a lesson.

Safeguarding, stated plainly

You are inviting an adult you have never met to spend half an hour with your child on video. The rules are therefore fixed, and breaking any of them ends the teacher's contract.

• Camera on for the whole lesson, both sides.
• No lesson takes place with a child alone and unobserved. You can watch or record any lesson, at any time, without asking first.
• No contact with your child outside the platform: no personal numbers, no social media, no messaging apps.
• Every arrangement, from rescheduling to progress reports, goes through the academy rather than privately between teacher and family.

On DBS checks we will not pretend. A DBS check searches UK police and barring records, so it returns nothing meaningful for a teacher who has never lived in the UK. We do not claim our teachers are DBS-checked, and any academy that does claim it is worth questioning. The reasoning is set out on our safeguarding page and in this piece on whether online Quran teachers are DBS checked.

Still comparing academies? The questions worth asking are a good place to start.

Lessons are online, so where you live decides nothing except what time suits you. Families join us from every part of the UK, and the reasons tend to be the same wherever they are.

In some areas the nearest madrasah is a twenty-minute drive each way, four evenings a week. In others it is close but full, with a waiting list and a class of thirty. Either way the child gets a few minutes of reading aloud per session, and you lose most of your evening to the logistics. A one to one lesson at your kitchen table removes both problems at once, which is the practical case for online madrasah against mosque madrasah.

England

We have written separate guides for families in Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester, where the choice of local classes is wide but places go quickly. In London, the Tower Hamlets and Newham pages cover what is available locally and where online lessons fit around it.

There are also pages for Leicester, Blackburn, Luton and Slough, each written around that town rather than copied from the last one. They cover the local options honestly, including the ones that have nothing to do with us.

Scotland and Wales

Outside the larger English cities the picture changes: fewer classes, longer journeys, and often no option at all for a child who needs one to one help. Our pages for Scotland and Wales set out what families there usually find and how a weekly online lesson fills the gap.

If your town is not listed, nothing changes about the lessons themselves. The teachers, the timings and the safeguarding rules are identical wherever you are; only the local context in those guides differs. The full set of pages sits on the Quran classes index, and the simplest way to see whether the format suits your child is a free trial lesson. If you would rather ask something first, get in touch and we will answer properly.